I read where scientists have estimated that around 500 thousand to a million Aboriginals may have been here when the first fleet arrived.1788.
Using those two figures I have been trying to figure out how many people actually made an entry onto this continent , originally I guess from Africa?
The entries would have been from 60 thousand years ago to about 6 thousand years ago when it is suggested that the sea level rose and stopped the flow of peoples' actual entry onto Australia.
Meaning I guess that after 6000 years ago, only visitors may have made their way to the shores of the now "water bound" continent.
And not many if any settled as the sea crossing was much harder, they may have come to trade.
There may not have been many.
So the question is , how many people would have needed to enter over the thousands of years to build a population of 500 to a million.
Wide scope but its all estimation.
I think the original Australians came in different groups over the many generations and were wanderers, but settled the continent , therefore making terra nullus (I think its called) wrong.
There were then, first nations people here with similar stories and languages and laws from places we now know as QLD, NT, into NSW and right across the continent to the far south west of Australia, WA.
Apparently the more south of NSW and also in Arnhem land for some reason there are different types of stories and languages. Maybe the south eastern peoples came earlier and Arnhem land people came later after the diagonal typed advancement down into WA, from the north east of the continent.
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Using those two figures I have been trying to figure out how many people actually made an entry onto this continent , originally I guess from Africa?
The entries would have been from 60 thousand years ago to about 6 thousand years ago when it is suggested that the sea level rose and stopped the flow of peoples' actual entry onto Australia.
Meaning I guess that after 6000 years ago, only visitors may have made their way to the shores of the now "water bound" continent.
And not many if any settled as the sea crossing was much harder, they may have come to trade.
There may not have been many.
So the question is , how many people would have needed to enter over the thousands of years to build a population of 500 to a million.
Wide scope but its all estimation.
I think the original Australians came in different groups over the many generations and were wanderers, but settled the continent , therefore making terra nullus (I think its called) wrong.
There were then, first nations people here with similar stories and languages and laws from places we now know as QLD, NT, into NSW and right across the continent to the far south west of Australia, WA.
Apparently the more south of NSW and also in Arnhem land for some reason there are different types of stories and languages. Maybe the south eastern peoples came earlier and Arnhem land people came later after the diagonal typed advancement down into WA, from the north east of the continent.
???